i actually am afraid to write how nice the beaches are - as you would probably hate me if i wrote in detail....in SHORT: the sand is white and soft, the water turqoise/green - very warm and totally clear all the way to the bottom, the sky blue, palm trees around... 30-35 degrees all the time - but not too hot - we there's a refreshing sea breeze. what else do you need

our usual ''concerns'' are:

''should i rather go swim in the sea, in the pool or continue lying and doing nothing''?

''do i want a fresh pineapple, or grilled spring rolls??'' - both brought to my chair on the beach by nice Thai people

''watermelon or pineappple juice?''

haha i better stop writing NOW [as little bird told me that the weather situation in Europe isnt as great at the moment )]

the island is great, but it's not totally stunning. the beach IS. but the rest of the island is very COMMERCIAL - everything is for tourists. People who only go to this island, would never get a feeling of the real Thailand. It could be an island in Greece as well. Same stupid street stores with souvenirs, same loud nightlife. It's even hard to find real Thai food here (!!!) and the number of 'schnitzel''-restuarnats/fast-foods etc is huge.... We're so surprised to see all these Europeans comning o Thailand only to catch back on spare ribs or Wiener Schnitzel... :-S What's the point...

also: the Thail people here are very different from the ones we've seen before. They are not smiling all the time like elsewhere, also: we have a feeling everybbody is trying to cheat us... They know they CAN cheat tourists... And they seem to be very lazy - they usually try to charge us double the GOOD price for taxi - and when we refuse to take this ''offer'', they dont even bargain down - they just continue sitting on their ass, as one good scam later on will be enough to earn as much as they would if they were honest... sad...

In ANY case: we are very happy to have these 4 days on the beach - to recharge our sun-batteries yay!!!